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Buffalo Sabres at Vegas Golden Knights

Dec 15, 2023 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 5 27
Vegas Golden Knights 2 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
07:42 BUF Dylan Cozens (5) Casey Mittelstadt (17) 1 - 0
13:44 VGK Ivan Barbashev (7) PP Nicolas Roy (8) 1 - 1
3rd Period
03:22 VGK Jack Eichel (13) Paul Cotter (7) 1 - 2
05:01 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (7) Dylan Cozens (10), Connor Clifton (7) 2 - 2
09:29 BUF Zach Benson (4) Alex Tuch (10), Mattias Samuelsson (3) 3 - 2
11:12 BUF Alex Tuch (9) Zach Benson (6) 4 - 2
17:19 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (8) Dylan Cozens (11), Rasmus Dahlin (18) 5 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:52 BUF Tage Thompson Slashing 2
2nd Period
03:35 BUF Brett Murray Slashing 2
05:34 VGK Chandler Stephenson Roughing removing opponents helmet 2
13:14 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Hooking 2
18:46 BUF Peyton Krebs Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 51 36 27 5 2.6 44.3
Vegas Golden Knights 75 56 35 2 5.1 55.7

How the game went

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The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.6 expected, 5 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 5.1 expected, 2 scored

024Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 7:42 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 5:01 of 3rd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 9:29 of 3rd, a 18% chanceBUF goal, 11:12 of 3rd, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 17:19 of 3rd, a 37% chanceVGK goal, 13:44 of 2nd, a 45% chanceVGK goal, 3:22 of 3rd, a 25% chanceVGK 5.1BUF 2.6

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted.

Where the attempts came from

Buffalo Sabres
Vegas Golden Knights

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Zach Benson13:2843.946.32-0
Casey Mittelstadt · Dylan Cozens · JJ Peterka12:5858.339.41-0
Kyle Okposo · Eric Robinson · Peyton Krebs10:3925.018.60-0
Victor Olofsson · Tyson Jost · Brett Murray4:07100.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin17:2640.029.40-0
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power15:0232.39.51-1
Connor Clifton · Ryan Johnson9:3847.659.11-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 2 1 3 3 0 2 0 16:38 0.08 18-12 0.75-0.97
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 2 3 3 0 3 1 15:16 0.22 17-11 0.71-0.90
6 Zach Benson L 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 17:38 0.26 21-29 1.01-1.50
89 Alex Tuch R 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 18:47 0.30 22-25 1.03-1.32
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 3 2 1 3 26:18 0.01 21-23 1.00-1.08
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 1 0 3 4 23:51 0.16 16-18 0.46-0.91
75 Connor Clifton D 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 15:54 13-13 0.70-0.63
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 14:29 7-22 0.33-1.31
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 2 0 4 1 18:25 0.53 15-11 0.65-0.93
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:32 0.02 4-2 0.12-0.36
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 15:58 0.13 7-19 0.35-1.21
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 18:43 0.05 14-22 0.36-1.84
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 21:43 0.00 17-29 0.58-2.20
33 Ryan Johnson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11:42 0.01 14-13 0.98-0.56
50 Eric Robinson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 15:21 0.16 6-18 0.26-1.14
57 Brett Murray L 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 05:09 2-0 0.02-0.00
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 2 2 4 1 19:23 0.34 19-28 0.87-1.18
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:43 2-0 0.03-0.00
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
27 Devon Levi W 35 33 2 60:00 5.18 +3.18

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel11:1044.830.90-1
William Karlsson · Michael Amadio · Paul Cotter10:0370.480.70-1
William Carrier · Keegan Kolesar · Nicolas Roy9:4964.384.30-0
Jonathan Marchessault · Chandler Stephenson · Brett Howden8:5650.069.70-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nicolas Hague · Zach Whitecloud19:5353.777.11-1
Alex Pietrangelo · Brayden McNabb12:4847.244.70-2
Ben Hutton · Brayden Pachal12:4552.947.40-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
9 Jack Eichel C 1 0 1 -1 0 8 3 19:54 0.71 16-17 0.81-1.01
49 Ivan Barbashev L 1 0 1 -1 0 3 4 15:25 0.65 16-18 0.70-0.94
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 3 14:17 0.20 11-9 0.44-0.20
47 Paul Cotter L 0 1 1 0 0 3 6 13:48 0.57 23-11 1.75-0.42
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 14:22 0.03 18-19 0.80-0.89
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 23:32 0.05 25-20 1.08-0.91
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 13:52 0.41 10-13 0.76-0.60
17 Ben Hutton D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 19:15 0.03 17-9 0.82-0.63
21 Brett Howden C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 13:31 0.18 9-12 0.72-0.45
22 Michael Amadio R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 14:56 0.33 19-11 1.25-0.56
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:30 0.33 11-6 0.44-0.16
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 21:22 25-19 2.03-0.53
41 Nicolas Hague D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 21:45 0.11 23-19 1.91-0.53
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 9 12:26 0.10 9-8 0.40-0.23
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 20:08 0.53 19-16 1.18-0.93
71 William Karlsson C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 17:54 0.59 22-8 1.51-0.30
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 16:39 0.30 11-12 0.73-0.33
94 Brayden Pachal D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 13:11 0.00 11-8 0.70-0.61
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
48 Logan Thompson L 26 22 4 59:13 2.29 -1.71